A Posse Ad Esse

You really should NOT say, "Are your parents here?" when a woman comes to the door. Especially not with a little smirk that might or might not have been you going, oh, she's gonna love that I've 'mistaken her' for a teenager and buy my bug spraying service.

Because you're going to come across a forty-five-year-old woman who's gonna look at you like you're insanely CLUELESS, who just says, "No."

*nod* Yeah... I mean, I don't mind if someone shaves a decade off my age, if they're plausible about it -- but that still makes me 28, not 18, and treating me like a kid tends to make me Very ....Snarky.

You have to admit, though, it's still kind of a…well, I guess you could say an unintentional meta-compliment. He didn't actually mistake you for someone that young, but he did mistake you for someone who could be mistaken for someone that young.

*giggles* I *miss* Fezzik. I remember him wandering about the house and when cars came down the driveway he'd go "greet" them and some would head back on out, and others would keep coming, knowing who he was...